Video Screen instead of Graph

[DREZLER]

I run a 18' Tiller boat with a 90 horse Yamaha and a Vantage trolling motor. My transducer is in the back of the boat, and so is the big screen graph that I stare at. I do not run a bow mount troller because I do not see a need for it.

An idea came to me recently and I don't see any problems with it. Because I only have a transducer in the back of the boat, I was thinking it would be nice if the people fishing in my boat could do a better job following along with what I'm seeing on the graph, including watching for fish marks and viewing the contours and depth changes we are about to go over.

Wouldn't an effective and cheap option be to just put a video screen (waterproof) in the bow of my boat. Then just run a network cable from my graph to the screen so it shows what I see. This would eliminate fishing partners asking "what depth were at" or "if theres any fish down there." If you could buy one of these screens for like 3 or 4 hundred dollars it would be a great deal. (much cheaper than another $1600 graph that would show the same thing anyway)

The folks up at Frankies are working on it right now but I was just wondering if anyone had seen a set up like this, what was used in that set-up, or what anyones thought/ideas were.

[PerchJerker]

I have not heard of or seen the video screen idea before. I know it would work with a camera, where you have a video out jack --- but I don't know that a sonar has the data in a movable video format??? I am very curious to hear if they can get this to work for you.

There are a couple of options I know of to do what you want ....

If you have 2 Lowrance units with the yellow ethernet port you can share the sonar display from 1 transducer on both units at the same time. All you would need to do is mount the 2nd unit at the front of the boat and connect it with an ethernet cable.

Another option is to add a 2nd graph and 2nd transducer. You would want it to operate on a different frequency than the graph you're using now, to avoid any crosstalk or interference.